My son is a millennial (29) loves his Bay Area teams and sits with me and Old Blues at Memorial every Fall. But I'm guessing he's never watched a local TV sports caster or read a local sport's columnist ( unless I forward it to him). He like his buddies get their sports info from the web. For example , The Athletic, Bleacher Report, The Score or watch live games or events via streaming. He is a fan of KNBR, which kind of surprised me, but he likes the hosts.
Hard to swallow but " the times, they are a changing.."
I'm still a fan of the Ostler, Nevius,Jenkins school and think the local sports reporters at the Chron and Newspaper Group are great. But I do feel like a triceratops looking up at a meteor headed for the earth..
When I was a young reporter with USA Today in the 1980s I remember sitting in the press box at Churchill Downs at the midpoint of Kentucky Derby week. It was a tradition, apparently, that the major newspaper sports columnists all arrived Thursday ahead of Derby Day. As the press box door continued to swing open that Thursday, I felt I was in the presence of royalty. That's how much I revered Jim Murray (L.A. Times), Dave Anderson (New York Times), Ed Pope (Miami Herald), Bill Millsaps (Richmond Times-Dispatch, where I had interned during two summers), Blackie Sherrod (Dallas Morning News), Bob Verdi (Chicago Tribune), Furman Bisher (Atlanta J-C), etc. I'm sure I have forgotten a few. There was an erudite columnist from Philadelphia but his name escapes me. Newspapers have little use for gentlemen columnists any longer, sadly. USA Today has a female columnist, Nancy Armour, who is advocating for men to compete against women in sports. I wish Dick Young was still around. He'd tell her exactly where she can shove her inane columns! The trend you address here saddens me, in any case. I was drawn to sports journalism as a boy after reading The Boys of Summer by Roger Kahn, chronicling his days as a cub reporter covering the Brooklyn Dodgers. I was hooked.
Love the triceratops analogy. Sad but true.
My son is a millennial (29) loves his Bay Area teams and sits with me and Old Blues at Memorial every Fall. But I'm guessing he's never watched a local TV sports caster or read a local sport's columnist ( unless I forward it to him). He like his buddies get their sports info from the web. For example , The Athletic, Bleacher Report, The Score or watch live games or events via streaming. He is a fan of KNBR, which kind of surprised me, but he likes the hosts.
Hard to swallow but " the times, they are a changing.."
I'm still a fan of the Ostler, Nevius,Jenkins school and think the local sports reporters at the Chron and Newspaper Group are great. But I do feel like a triceratops looking up at a meteor headed for the earth..
When I was a young reporter with USA Today in the 1980s I remember sitting in the press box at Churchill Downs at the midpoint of Kentucky Derby week. It was a tradition, apparently, that the major newspaper sports columnists all arrived Thursday ahead of Derby Day. As the press box door continued to swing open that Thursday, I felt I was in the presence of royalty. That's how much I revered Jim Murray (L.A. Times), Dave Anderson (New York Times), Ed Pope (Miami Herald), Bill Millsaps (Richmond Times-Dispatch, where I had interned during two summers), Blackie Sherrod (Dallas Morning News), Bob Verdi (Chicago Tribune), Furman Bisher (Atlanta J-C), etc. I'm sure I have forgotten a few. There was an erudite columnist from Philadelphia but his name escapes me. Newspapers have little use for gentlemen columnists any longer, sadly. USA Today has a female columnist, Nancy Armour, who is advocating for men to compete against women in sports. I wish Dick Young was still around. He'd tell her exactly where she can shove her inane columns! The trend you address here saddens me, in any case. I was drawn to sports journalism as a boy after reading The Boys of Summer by Roger Kahn, chronicling his days as a cub reporter covering the Brooklyn Dodgers. I was hooked.